Today in the others we check out Banshee Engine, an under development C++ 14 game engine licensed under the LGPL license and scripted using C#.
It's VERY much under development, so expect crashes, but also you may it shocking just how developed the engine is at this point, with a beautiful renderer, DX11, OpenGL and Vulkan back ends and more.
A quick recap of the news and events of the world of game development for the week ending March 13, 2016.
Links mentioned in this story:
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2016/03/05/Blender-277-RC2-Released.aspx
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2016/03/07/MaxPlay-Engine-Announce-Several-Technology-Partners.aspx
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2016/03/07/FMod-Launch-FModio-Cloud-Based-Sound-Library.aspx
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2016/03/07/RPGMaker-MV-11-Released.aspx
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2016/03/08/Tiled-0152-Released.aspx
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2016/03/08/Faceware-Release-New-MoCap-Software-Including-A-Free-PLE-Version.aspx
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2016/03/09/NVidia-Release-VisionWorks-OpenVX-Implementation.aspx
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2016/03/10/New-Positional-Audio-Library-for-Torque2D.aspx
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2016/03/11/CroTeam-Open-Source-Serious-Engine-Seriously.aspx
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2016/03/11/Unity-Release-Patch-533p3.aspx
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2016/03/11/Unreal-Engine-411-Preview-7-Released.aspx
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2016/03/13/BDX-024-Released.aspx
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2015/03/16/Create-a-3D-game-in-Blender-using-LibGDX-and-BDX.aspx
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Welcome to a Closer Look at GDevelop. GDevelop is an open source 2D game engine with full editing environment and a visual programming interface. It is available at:
http://compilgames.net/
The text link of this review is available at:
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2017/06/06/A-Closer-Look-At-GDevelop.aspx
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA2TcBMWFLk
In a follow up to our free alternatives to commercial graphics software, today we are checking out the free and open source NLE video editor OpenShot, that is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Links:
https://gamefromscratch.com/free-alternatives-to-commercial-graphics-applications/
KDEnvline:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTpLZJsUiZ4
Camtasia (What I use and why)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vTx_gHPxKc
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4d67Kl_3_s
Just released in Unity 2019.1 Alpha, is the new experimental incremental garbage collector. This enables you to split the garbage collection process over multiple frames, hopefully reducing the number of jarring frame rate spikes caused by garbage collection in Unity games. This video looks at details of the new GC, as well as details for enabling it.
Link
https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2018/11/27/Unity-Add-Incremental-Garbage-Collection-in-20191.aspx
https://blogs.unity3d.com/2018/11/26/feature-preview-incremental-garbage-collection/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhfzzLyG7_w
Godot 3 is here! Godot is a free, open source 2D/3D game engine and the 3.0 version was just released.
This release is massive bringing C# support, VR, GDNative, a new 3D renderer, Bullet physics and a ton more.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oARHEepjJ0
Today Unity have just announced a renewed focus on game development and this unfortunately includes laying off 3.8% of its work force. Those layoffs however are almost entirely in Weta Digital, the Peter Jackson founded digital effects house that Unity purchased in 2021 for a whopping 1.6 BILLION dollars.
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https://gamefromscratch.com/unity-layoff-3-8-of-workforce-weta-digital-closed/
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Today we are going hands on with nodeCanvas, one of the Unity assets in the ongoing Unity Fantasy Games & Game Dev Asset Bundle.
It is a visual programming solution for creating Finite State Machines (FSM), Behavior Trees and dialog trees for conversations in your games.
Links
https://www.humblebundle.com/software/unity-fantasy-games-dev-assets-software?partner=gamefromscratch
https://gamefromscratch.com/nodecanvas-for-unity-review/
https://gamefromscratch.com/unity-fantasy-games-gamedev-assets-bundle/
ODIN Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkddoloJ8U0
The above links enable you to direct a portion of your purchase to support GFS (and thanks so much if you do!)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eknm53pCbkI
Looking to stock up on graphics, sprites, backgrounds, tiles and tilesets for your 2D game development? This may be the perfect bundle for you!
Links:
https://www.humblebundle.com/software/game-dev-map-level-creator-software?partner=gamefromscratch
https://gamefromscratch.com/gamedev-map-level-creator-humble-bundle/
The above link enables you to direct a portion of your purchase to support GFS and thanks so much if you do! ;)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQaceCBz_eo
Blender 3 was released today, and 10 years after launching, Cycles got a massive speed boost with Cycles X. Additionally, Geometry nodes continue to evolve, VR support improves, a new Knife tool is added in, UI is refined, Asset Library is implemented and much much more.
Links
https://gamefromscratch.com/blender-3-released/
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